I have a strong feeling that eTRAYz is now a discontinued product. Xtreamer is not selling eTRAYz on their online shop anymore, and the firmware updates have stopped.

This way I started looking for some alternatives to replace the original OS of my eTRAYz, and searching for this subject on Google I stumbled upon this topic.

Instead of cross flashing a firmware from other vendors into eTRAYz (which is against the forum rules, per what I understand), I believe that a better alternative would be replacing the eTRAYz software by some open source NAS distribution (such as FreeNAS or OpenMediaVault).

My knowledge about eTRAYz is somewhat limited, but I do understand that there is some sort of firmware on flash memory that allows the eTRAYz installer (running on Windows) to push the full OS to eTRAYz hard disk. I would think that it runs some sort of TFTP server from this firmware, but I am not sure.

BTW, the eTRAYz software was not developed by Xtreamer, but it was outsourced to another Korean company called "Gluesys" (there are lots of references to GlueSys on eTRAYz scripts, and GlueSys also has a home NAS device called "MCube) that seems to be very similar to eTRAYz: http://www.gluesys.com/eng/product/pro03.htm (BTW, Google Chrome just complained that GlueSys website might be infected by some malware...).

My knowledge about Linux development is very limited (almost null), but I would be VERY interested in case anyone is able to run OpenMediaVault on eTRAYz, for example.

I have already bookmarked this topic, and hopefully in the future it will be possible to replace the original eTRAYz OS by some open source distribution...

Cheers!
dsouza

Last edited by dsouza on Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The initial rootfs is loaded from /dev/md0, which is on harddisk(s?). It is mounted ro, yet the actual rootfs is rw. So either the initial rootfs is remounted rw, or the root is switched to another partition.
Another post in this thread gives the partitions:

Obviously md0 is in sda1, and md1 is in sda2. According to the mount output sda3 is xfs, while the rootfs is ext3, so the rootfs is md0 or md1. Both are big enough (A Lenny rootfs can easily fit in 256MB).

I suppose you can just put a Lenny rootfs on md0, but maybe it's a good idea to first try to pivot_root to an USB stick, like it's done here. In that case you can pull the stick and boot the firmware again, if the Debian rootfs doesn't work. I don't know if you have a /linuxrc. If not you could also rename /sbin/init, and use a script instead. (When /sbin/init is a symlink to busybox, you may not rename it, but need to move it to another directory. Or call busybox directly)

I registered just to comment on this topic. I would be very interested in this as my etrayz is starting to annoy me.
I was thinking of decommissioning the device and repurposing the storage from my HP Microserver running OMV in an ESXi 5.1 VM.

I registered just to comment on this topic. I would be very interested in this as my etrayz is starting to annoy me.
I was thinking of decommissioning the device and repurposing the storage from my HP Microserver running OMV in an ESXi 5.1 VM.

I registered just to comment on this topic. I would be very interested in this as my etrayz is starting to annoy me.
I was thinking of decommissioning the device and repurposing the storage from my HP Microserver running OMV in an ESXi 5.1 VM.

Just a heads up on some new info, in case anyone is still trying to work on this device (also because this thread shows up easily in Google). Thecus has released source code for its N2200, which is also based on the Oxford 810DSE. You can get it here: